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James W. Metcalf was assigned as a turret gunner with the Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the USS Franklin (CV-13). On...

Sherwin Lansing Eddy was born January 1924 in Corona, California. His mother passed away when he was seven years old,...

When James Born left Japan and landed in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He had no...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

The next morning Alex Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

As Ralph Weymouth approached the Japanese fleet, he saw that it was organized in a typical formation for ships at sea....

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan became a...

Lenwood Steglich joined the Navy [Annotator’s Note: enlisting in September 1942] because all his friends were going...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

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